Afghanistan

The Taliban killed four policemen in an IED attack in Kandahar and two Swedish soldiers and an interpreter during a gun battle in Mazar-e-Sharif. Coalition and Afghan forces killed a Taliban fighter in Baghlan and detained the deputy police chief in Kapisa for supporting the Taliban.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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